HMS Valeur

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Valeur:

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Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Resolution. However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate Prince Royal, which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored. The name Resolution was bestowed on the first of the vessels listed below:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS St Albans after the English city and ducal family of St Albans:

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise while another was planned:

Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triton or HMS Tryton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters:

Sixteen ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fox, after the fox.

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Danae, after the Greek heroine Danaë.

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Northumberland after the English county of Northumberland, or the Dukedom of Northumberland. Another was planned but later cancelled:

Six ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Temeraire. The name entered the navy with the capture of the first Temeraire from the French in 1759:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Formidable with a fifth, the French Formidable, renamed HMS Ham after being captured and recommissioned; a sixth has been announced:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dunkirk, after the Channel seaport of Dunkirk, France:

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Mars, after Mars, the Roman god of war:

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fame, whilst another was planned:

Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scarborough, after the town of Scarborough:

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fowey, either after the Cornish town of Fowey, or the River Fowey which runs through it, whilst another two were planned:

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Milford:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Looe, after the Cornish town of Looe. A seventh was planned but never completed:

HMS Valeur was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, initially launched in 1754 as the Valeur for the French Navy, and classified by them as a corvette. The British captured her in 1759. In Royal Navy service she captured several merchant vessels and privateers before she was sold in 1764.

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Laurel. Another was planned but never completed. The first British ship of the name served in the Commonwealth navy. All were named after the plant family Lauraceae.

Numerous ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Portsmouth, after the English port city and home of a naval base.

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